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  • Tuesday, Sep. 12, 2017
J.J. Abrams to write and direct "Star Wars: Episode IX"
In this March 2, 2017 file photo, director-producer J.J. Abrams poses for a portrait to promote "The Play That Goes Wrong" at the Lyceum Theatre in New York. Abrams is returning to “Star Wars,” and will replace Colin Trevorrow as writer and director of “Episode IX.” Disney announced Abrams return on Tuesday, Sept. 12. (Photo by Christopher Smith/Invision/AP, File)
By Lindsey Bahr, Film Writer
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- 

J.J. Abrams is returning to "Star Wars," and will replace Colin Trevorrow as writer and director of "Episode IX."

Disney announced Abrams return on Tuesday a week after news broke of Trevorrow's departure. After several high-profile exits by previous "Star Wars" directors, Lucasfilm is turning to the filmmaker who helped resurrect the franchise in the first place. Abrams will co-write the film with screenwriter Chris Terrio, who won an Oscar for adapting "Argo," and also co-wrote "Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice."

As the director of "The Force Awakens," Abrams rebooted "Star Wars" to largely glowing reviews from fans and more than $2 billion in box office. Abrams had said that would be his only film for the franchise, but he's now been pulled back in.

Lucasfilm President Kathleen Kennedy said that Abrams "delivered everything we could have possibly hoped for" on "The Force Awakens" and added "I am so excited that he is coming More

  • Monday, Sep. 11, 2017
Liam Neeson says his days as an action hero are over
In this Sept. 13, 2016 file photo, actor Liam Neeson appears at the premiere of the film "Hunt For The Wilderpeople" in London. (Photo by Vianney Le Caer/Invision/AP, File)
By Jake Coyle, Film Writer
TORONTO (AP) -- 

Special set of skills or not, Liam Neeson says he's finished making thrillers.

In an interview, Neeson said that he plans to stop even though it's hard to turn down the lucrative offers he gets thanks to his box-office success in the three "Taken" films, as well as other thrillers. Neeson believes he's simply getting too old to be an action hero.

"The thrillers, that was all a pure accident," said Neeson. "They're still throwing serious money at me to do that stuff. I'm like, 'Guy's I'm sixty-f---ing-five.' Audiences are eventually going to go, 'Come on.'"

Neeson still has two upcoming revenge thrillers he's already shot: "Hard Powder," in which he plays a snowplow driver who faces off with drug dealers, and "The Commuter," with director Jaume Collet-Serra, who also directed Neeson in "Unknown," ''Non-Stop" and "Run All Night."

But, Neeson said, those will be his last.

"I've shot one that's going to come out in January More

  • Monday, Sep. 11, 2017
Patty Jenkins officially signs on to direct "Wonder Woman 2"
In this June 8, 2017 file photo, director Patty Jenkins poses at the 45th AFI Life Achievement Award Tribute to Keaton at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. Jenkins has officially signed on to direct the sequel to “Wonder Woman,” a Warner Bros. representative confirmed Monday.(Photo by Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP, File)
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- 

Patty Jenkins has officially signed on to direct the sequel to "Wonder Woman."

A Warner Bros. representative confirmed Jenkins' return on Monday after Variety first reported the news.

Jenkins was widely expected to return for the sequel after "Wonder Woman" became both a critical success and a global hit at the box office earning over $816 million worldwide this summer. Negotiations took months to finalize a deal for Jenkins' return.

The Hollywood Reporter writes that her deal, which is reported to be in the $7 to $9 million range, makes Jenkins the highest-paid female filmmaker in history. The studio declined comment on Jenkins' pay.

Star Gal Gadot will also reprise her role as the Amazonian warrior in the sequel, which is scheduled to hit theaters in Dec. 2019.

  • Monday, Sep. 11, 2017
Don Ohlmeyer, longtime network TV executive, dies at 72
This April 14, 1978, file photo shows TV producer Don Ohlmeyer at a mobile TV control center during a golf tournament in Rancho Mirage, Calif. (AP Photo, File)
INDIAN WELLS, Calif. (AP) -- 

Don Ohlmeyer, the "Monday Night Football" producer who came up with the phrase "Must See TV" in leading NBC to the No. 1 prime-time spot, died Sunday. He was 72.

"It is with heavy hearts we share that Don Ohlmeyer, our beloved husband, father and grandfather, has passed away at age of 72 due to cancer," Ohlmeyer's family said in a statement. "Surrounded by loved ones, he died peacefully at his home in Indian Wells."

Longtime friend Al Michaels announced Ohlmeyer's death while broadcasting NBC's "Sunday Night Football" game between the Dallas Cowboys and New York Giants.

Ohlmeyer won 16 Emmys, including the Lifetime Achievement Award, and two Peabody Awards.

"Don Ohlmeyer was a towering figure in sports and entertainment who had an indelible impact both on NBC and our industry," NBC Entertainment Chairman Robert Greenblatt said in a statement. "His legacy will live on not only because he is directly responsible for some of the More

  • Sunday, Sep. 10, 2017
Louis C.K. premieres his secret, very Woody Allen-esque film
In this Feb. 15, 2015 file photo, Louis C.K. attends the SNL 40th Anniversary Special in New York. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP, File)
By Jake Coyle, Film Writer
TORONTO (AP) -- 

Louis C.K. on Saturday debuted potentially the most audacious film of the Toronto International Film Festival: a very Woody Allen-esque comedy that simultaneously comments on Allen — and C.K.'s — controversies.

C.K. shot the film, "I Love You, Daddy," earlier this year in secret. He financed its production himself and shot it in black-and-white and on 35mm. Little was known about it before it premiered Saturday, so audiences were at turns delighted, surprised and uncertain about the brazen — but definitely quite funny — result.

The New York-set, lushly scored movie often takes after Allen's 1979 film "Manhattan," yet it also includes a character that the cast on Saturday acknowledged was modeled after Allen. John Malkovich plays a legendary film director who's rumored to have molested a young girl decades earlier. At the premiere, C.K. — who co-starred in Allen's "Blue Jasmine" — said he and co-writer Vernon Chatman wanted to make a movie More

  • Thursday, Sep. 7, 2017
Disney streaming service just got a lot bigger
In this Monday, March 13, 2017, file photo, The Walt Disney Company CEO Robert Iger attends a special screening of Disney's "Beauty and the Beast" at Alice Tully Hall in New York. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP, File)
By Tali Arbel, Technology Writer
NEW YORK (AP) -- 

Disney is adding more firepower to its upcoming streaming service .

Its "Star Wars" and Marvel comic-book movies will be included in the service, making it the only way to stream those movies on demand in the U.S. as part of a monthly subscription. (So, not on Netflix.)

A price hasn't been announced yet. The service is expected in late 2019 after Disney's current deal with Netflix expires.

Previously Disney announced the inclusion of just Disney and Pixar movies and Disney TV shows. Adding the "Star Wars" and Marvel movies could make the new service appealing to teenagers and adults, not just families with young children. The Marvel movies include the "Avengers" and "Guardians of the Galaxy" franchises.

The service will also have original Disney movies, TV series and shorts. Disney CEO Bob Iger said thousands of TV episodes and hundreds of movies will be available, though shows from Disney's ABC network aren't coming to the More

  • Wednesday, Sep. 6, 2017
Penelope Cruz and Javier Bardem return to Venice festival
Actors Javier Bardem, left, and Penelope Cruz pose for photographers during the photo call of the film "Loving Pablo" at the 74th Venice Film Festival in Venice, Italy, Wednesday, Sept. 6, 2017. (AP Photo/Domenico Stinellis)
By Sian Watson
VENICE, Italy (AP) -- 

Back when he was 22 and she was 16, Javier Bardem and Penelope Cruz brought their movie "Jamon, Jamon" to the Venice International Film Festival.

Now, a quarter of a century and two children later, they were back with another project, "Loving Pablo," their first film together as a real-life couple.

"It is interesting that we are back with a movie together exactly 25 years later and it feels like time has flown, there are so many things happened in between but it also feels like it was yesterday. Very strange," said Cruz, who married Bardem in 2010.

"Loving Pablo" tells the story of notorious drug lord Pablo Escobar and his unlikely lover, TV journalist Virginia Vallejo. Despite the wealth, the glitz and the glamour, the affair becomes the undoing of Vallejo.

Cruz admitted that Bardem captured Escobar perhaps too well. "I felt like I couldn't wait for the last day of shooting when I don't have to hear him or see him as this More

  • Wednesday, Sep. 6, 2017
HBO's "Veep" to end after seventh season in 2018
In this May 25, 2017, file photo, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, a cast member in the HBO series "Veep," poses at an Emmy For Your Consideration event for the show at the Television Academy in Los Angeles. (Photo by Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP, File)
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- 

HBO says its much-honored political satire "Veep" is coming to an end.

The cable channel said Wednesday that "Veep" will air its seventh and final season in 2018.

Series star Julia Louis-Dreyfus won five consecutive Emmy Awards for her portrayal of Selina Meyer, a self-absorbed politician. The actress is up for a sixth trophy at the Sept. 17 Emmy ceremony.

"Veep," has also won two consecutive best comedy Emmys, and is in the running to repeat.

HBO programming chief Casey Bloys writes in a statement that HBO respected the producers' decision to bring the show to a close, calling it "bittersweet."

  • Wednesday, Sep. 6, 2017
Sutherland, Burnett, Roizman, Varda to get honorary Oscars
In this May 24, 2015, file photo, director Agnes Varda reacts as she walks on stage to be presented the honorary Palme d'Or award during the awards ceremony at the 68th international film festival, Cannes, southern France. (AP Photo/Lionel Cironneau)
By Sandy Cohen, Entertainment Writer
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- 

Actor Donald Sutherland, writer-director Charles Burnett, cinematographer Owen Roizman and Belgian director Agnes Varda are getting honorary Oscars this year.

The film academy said Wednesday that the four honorees will receive their Oscar statuettes at the ninth annual Governors Awards ceremony in November.

"I'm just so pleased with these four very different kinds of people, their different crafts and the different kinds of films that they make," academy president John Bailey said in an interview. "This shows the best of the whole notion of what the academy and the governors of the academy espouse to do, which is honor many different kinds of filmmakers."

The board of governors selected the honorees Tuesday night. None has previously won an Oscar, Bailey said.

"One of the things that's so wonderful about these (recipients) is they can come from anywhere inside the filmmaking community," he said. "These are our awards. These More

  • Wednesday, Sep. 6, 2017
Steinbeck stepdaughter wins $13M in suit over movie rights
This undated file photo shows American author John Steinbeck, winner of the 1940 Pulitzer Prize for his novel "The Grapes of Wrath." (AP Photo, File)
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- 

A federal jury in Los Angeles has awarded John Steinbeck's stepdaughter more than $13 million in a lawsuit claiming the author's son and daughter-in-law impeded film adaptations of his classic works.

The jury on Tuesday found in favor of Waverly Scott Kaffaga, who had alleged that long-running litigation over the Steinbeck's estate prevented her from making the most of his copyrights. She claimed remakes of "The Grapes of Wrath" and "East of Eden" fell apart.

Kaffaga said in a statement that the verdict upholds the Steinbeck estate's mission of sharing his legacy with the world.

Messages seeking comment from defense attorneys were not immediately returned.

Kaffaga, daughter of the late author's third wife, sued the estate of stepbrother Thomas Steinbeck, who died last year, his widow and their company.

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